A Little Something Something


I wonder if I wrote you a sonnet

Moved my heart from the dark onto my sleeve



I wonder what parts you'd take from it

If you'd like the flow of the words I weave



Would you like the part about your brown eyes

How I want to get lost deep inside them



Or the part about the way your hair lies

It blocks your sight a bit, but no problem



Maybe the part about your lovely laugh

And how I tell jokes just to hear it



I say I'll go down a different path

You gasp and say "no!" As if you fear it



Or perhaps you won’t take a thing from it

And think this sonnet is just a sonnet
© Mia Joseph, 2023